My 8 year-old daughter this year began asking me some of the important questions of life: who was the first person, was the first person a boy or girl (note: our family is not religious, so she’s never heard the story of Adam and Eve to my knowedge), were dogs or cats first, etc.
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I was going through some of my old GitHub repositories and came across my set of Common Lisp libraries that I made over the course of a few years and have consistenly returned to, always found useful, and kept up-to-date.
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Recently I had the unlucky experience of trying to explain to some friends over Slack what monads actually do. Trying to show how they are quite useful outside of “they allow Haskell to have side-effects” proved difficult.
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My last post talked about how one of my recurring pet projects is an RSS reader. I consistently try and add little features that I would like, and I use it to learn new things (e.g. Bayesian filtering).
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I had just finished up my ScalaJS G8 Skeleton, and thought I’d take a little time out from the daily grind and play around with reactive frameworks. And what better first app than the “hello world” of web apps: a TODO list?
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